Flapjacks and feudalism : social mobility and class in The Archers

'Flapjacks and Feudalism: Social Mobility and Class in The Archers' is an excavation into the family and class politics found in the clans of the residents of Ambridge, in BBC Radio 4's 'The Archers'. A whole section of the book is devoted to 'The Fall of the House of A...

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Other Authors Courage, Cara (Editor), Headlam, Nicola (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.
Subjects
Archers (Radio program)
Radio soap operas > Social aspects.
Social mobility.
Social classes.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781800713888
DOI10.1108/9781800713864
Physical Description1 online resource (xxxiv, 348 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface: The Haves and Have Nots: wealth and value in Ambridge / Cara Courage and Nicola Headlam
  • Section 1 - It's who you know, and what you know about them
  • Chapter 1. The Grundys and their oppressors / Keith Flett
  • Chapter 2. Two-in/one-out: network power, kin-keeping and 'airtight' distinction / Nicola Headlam
  • Section 2 - The fall of the house of Aldridge, the rise of the oppressed Grundys?
  • Chapter 3. 'If you have security, Ed, that is everything': Deconstructing 'security' as a buffer against life's challenges / Lalage Cambell
  • Chapter 4. 'Feeding the horses': modern slavery, the dark side of construction hidden in plain sight in Ambridge / Nicola Headlam
  • Chapter 5. Borsetshire businessman or feckless farmer? / Christine Narramore
  • Chapter 6. What to do when you're no longer Borsetshire's businessperson of the year or How to handle a scandal / Olivia Vandyk
  • Section 3 - Family function and dysfunction
  • Chapter 7. Contemporary social problems in a rural setting: using 'The Archers' in social work education / Helen Burrows
  • Chapter 8. Academic Archers assembly: putting the parents on trial / Cara Courage
  • Chapter 9. Accent and identity in Ambridge: the link between spoken language and identity / Rob Drummond
  • Chapter 10. 'We should have called him Damien': a discussion of the impact of Henry Archer's early years on potential crimes of the future / Nicola Maxfield
  • Chapter 11. Fear, fecklessness and flapjacks: imagining Ambridge's offenders / Charlotte Bilby
  • Section 4 - Housing and the Ambridge Fairy
  • Chapter 12. Rich relatives or Ambridge Fairy?: patronage and expectation in Ambridge housing pathways / Claire Astbury
  • Chapter 13. Staying in the spare room: social connectedness and household co-residence in 'The Archers' / Paula Fomby
  • Chapter 14. Can't afford the Laurels?: care provision in Ambridge in 2041 / Ruth Heilbronn and Rosalind Janssen
  • Section 5 - It takes a village ...
  • Chapter 15. Parents, siblings, and the pursuit of power: predicting the future leaders of Ambridge / Timothy Vercellotti
  • Chapter 16. 'From the moment those two joined the committee it's been grunge bands, sumo wrestlers and souffle competitions': What Ambridge's civil society says about UK politics in 2019 / Amy Saunders
  • Chapter 17. A divided village: a narrative study using a theoretical lens of speculative ontology / Maggie Bartlett.

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